Notice that there are 31 chapters? Read a chapter a day every day and on 30 day months, read two chapters on a day and you will complete Proverbs twelve times in one year. Now, add to that regimen five Psalms every day and you will complete Psalms and Proverbs twelve times in a year. Do this along with your regular minimum of thirty minutes of study every day.
The Wisdom of Proverbs
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Poor Rolling Stones. 
My favorites are about discretion - I have avoided so many problems whenever I was patient with talking and reacting instead of voicing everything or arguing/reacting right away. I discovered that when I am patient the things sort themselves out in my favor on their own accord, and exactly because I kept quiet.
Psalms 112:5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Proverbs 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
My favorites are about discretion - I have avoided so many problems whenever I was patient with talking and reacting instead of voicing everything or arguing/reacting right away. I discovered that when I am patient the things sort themselves out in my favor on their own accord, and exactly because I kept quiet.
Psalms 112:5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
Proverbs 1:4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
Proverbs 2:11 Discretion shall preserve thee, understanding shall keep thee:
Proverbs 11:22 As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
Proverbs 19:11 The discretion of a man deferreth his anger; and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.
"The reward for humility and fear of the Lord
is riches and honor and life" Prov. 22:4
Is this applicable to New Testament believers? There are so many in countries being persecuted for being Christians, far from riches, honor and even life. Or perhaps it is speaking of metaphorical riches, honor and life? The blessings of being "in Christ?"
is riches and honor and life" Prov. 22:4
Is this applicable to New Testament believers? There are so many in countries being persecuted for being Christians, far from riches, honor and even life. Or perhaps it is speaking of metaphorical riches, honor and life? The blessings of being "in Christ?"
Speaking of the wicked I always loved this verse, I recall the first time it dawned on me this is what the wicked do, its their words that lie in wait for others in this manner
Prov 12:6a The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood:
Isaiah 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Jerm 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
And we in Christ this very thing
Luke 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Like little stalkers
Mat 22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Then if you repeat proverbs again and add the last verse in you can even see our Lord as the mouth of the upright
Prov 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood:
but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
And we know that
good and upright is the Lord, who says,
Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Even shown in Stephen
Acts 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Showing the mouth he would give them would be the spirit by which he spake
Which seems to indicate he would deliver them from their mouths
His words are truly amazing just as He is
Prov 12:6a The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood:
Isaiah 29:21 That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nought.
Jerm 5:26 For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.
And we in Christ this very thing
Luke 11:54 Laying wait for him, and seeking to catch something out of his mouth, that they might accuse him.
Like little stalkers
Mat 22:15 Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.
Then if you repeat proverbs again and add the last verse in you can even see our Lord as the mouth of the upright
Prov 12:6 The words of the wicked are to lie in wait for blood:
but the mouth of the upright shall deliver them.
And we know that
good and upright is the Lord, who says,
Luke 21:15 For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to gainsay nor resist.
Even shown in Stephen
Acts 6:10 And they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spake.
Showing the mouth he would give them would be the spirit by which he spake
Which seems to indicate he would deliver them from their mouths
His words are truly amazing just as He is
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i have kind of a different view on proverbs from many christians apparently...i don't see its wisdom as all that profound...and i don't think it was -intended- to be especially profound...
when i was reading proverbs i had trouble with the fact that the vast majority of it is simply common sense that everyone should already know...
then i paid attention to how many times proverbs refers to a parent instructing a child...and i realized that solomon's intention was actually to write a book for instructing children and young people on the -basics- of wisdom...it was designed as a guide for teaching your children common sense...
so solomon really never intended for it to be a 'best of' collection of his most wise sayings...instead it was more like 'wisdom 101' or 'wisdom for dummies'
the fact that proverbs seems profound to many people nowdays really says less about the book and more about how 'common sense isn't common' any more...
when i was reading proverbs i had trouble with the fact that the vast majority of it is simply common sense that everyone should already know...
then i paid attention to how many times proverbs refers to a parent instructing a child...and i realized that solomon's intention was actually to write a book for instructing children and young people on the -basics- of wisdom...it was designed as a guide for teaching your children common sense...
so solomon really never intended for it to be a 'best of' collection of his most wise sayings...instead it was more like 'wisdom 101' or 'wisdom for dummies'
the fact that proverbs seems profound to many people nowdays really says less about the book and more about how 'common sense isn't common' any more...
